[Rarebooks] FS: 4 Military texts edited by Beroaldo. Bologna: 1495-96

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(INCUNABULA) SCRIPTORES REI MILITARIS. Bologna: Franciscus Plato de 
Benedictus. 10 July 1495; 16 November 1495; N.d.; 17 January 1496. Folio. 4 parts in 1. 
ff.(98). Roman type. Printer’s device at end of first part and fourth part. 
Text illustrated with 34 diagrams consisting of interesting type arrangements 
depicting tactical formations. Four works in one volume complete, all edited by 
Filippo Beroaldo, and comprising the military writings of Sextus Julius 
Frontinus, Flavius Vegetius, Aelianus and Modestus, all bound together in 19th 
century glazed boards, a bit wormed on covers. Blank lower portion of title and 
part of the blank inner margin and a portion of blank upper edge of title 
restored, and with repairs to blank edges here and there of the next several leaves 
and a few other minor mends to a blank edge here and there, but generally a 
large and clean copy with some neat manuscript corrections to the text and some 
neat early marginal annotations.     $6,500.00(trade discount allowed)
These four works occasionally are found as separate items and they actually 
were published separately. It is fortunate to find all four parts still 
together and complete. They represent the first appearance of Beroaldo’s highly 
esteemed scholarly edition. Copinger 5330; GW 10410; Goff S 345; BMC VI 828 (under 
Frontinus).

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